The High Graders

The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but
Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been
like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin
rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds
that the quiet ranching community has become a booming mining
town. Newfound wealth has not made Rafter a peaceful place,
however, and the smell of fear and greed is thick in the air.
As Mike Shevlin tries to unravel the mystery of Patterson’s
death, he is led deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that
controls not only the fate of Rafter Crossing but the heart
of a beautiful but tormented young woman—and Shevlin’s own
destiny.